Can I use my old ram on my new motherboard?

[Heinz Federico Valiant]

Hi guys. I want to replace the motherboard and cpu of my old pc for a new one, the new one being
a ASRock 980DE3/U3S3 AMD 760G So.AM3+ Dual Channel DDR3 ATX Retail,
with this cpu: AMD FX Series FX-4130 4x 3.80GHz So.AM3+ TRAY
and this cooler: Xilence M303 Tower

Now: I have on my old PC this RAM: CORSAIR 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 Desktop Memory Model CMV4GX3M2A1333C9
Can I use it on the new motherboard? It says on the motherboard page that it should support DDR3-1333, but it also says It is dual channel ram, and I dont really know anything about ram... Should I get some "dual channel ram"? Or does it only mean that the resource is used somewhat differently? I read something about dual channel ram being used in pairs or something... Does it mean I always have to use pairs? 2, 4, 6 or 8 pairs of ram? What happens If I used only one, for instance for testing if a ram module is dead?
Well, those are my questions. More importantly I wanted to know if I can use the old ram on the new motherboard. Thank you in advance!

 

[Jameson Clark]

It will work fine just put the 2 sticks of ram you have in (probably, read the maual for sure) the 2nd and 4th ram slots.
Dual channel basically just means using 2 sticks of ram vs 1

 

[Heinz Federico Valiant]

Thank you for your quick answer.
Why should I put the sticks in the 2nd and 4th slots? In Wikipedia it says "Paired memory modules should go in slots of same color." So It would be the same if I used the 1st and 3rd slots, right? I just need to make sure which slots are paired, is that it?
Can I still take out a stick to check if a module is dead?
Thank you!

 

[Jameson Clark]

You are correct that they should go in the color coded slots. Typically motherboards prefer the memory in certain slots first and foremost. A manual will tell you which slots to fill first and usually that is the 2nd and 4th. They would certainly still work in the 1st and 3rd though. Also yes you dont need to have the two sticks in for the pc to work so you can test 1 at a time to make sure they both work properly

 

[Heinz Federico Valiant]

Thank you for your quick and thorough answers! 😀